The first issue of the longest-running and most influential of all pulp horror titles. This is a “first state” copy, identified by the orange border around “Ooze,” the man’s orange shirt, and the woman’s black bow (the colors are different on the rarer “second state” printing).

A mad medical genius had declared war to the death with the Navy … and he was ready to unleash his diabolical Merciless Mermaids for control of the oceans. He already had mastered the monsters of the deep — SUPER SQUIDS — and only 0008 stood in his way…